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==Crime (historical)==
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|author=Stephen Gallagher
|title=The Bedlam Detective
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Authors like to claim that writing is hard work. In a way, that’s true – there are a really astonishing number of words in a book, and it’s often very difficult to wrangle them from your head into coherent sentences on a page. At the same time, though, ''hard'' should not be the same as ''boring''. It’s sad to come across authors who don’t enjoy the process of writing, and it’s so easy to tell when you’re reading a piece of work by a writer who was actually having fun when they wrote it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950120</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edney Silvestre
|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shocked. When, over the next few years, misfortune befalls several of the party-goers, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmes. It's a slightly different version of Holmes from that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless man, is capable of feeling strongly for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer to the mystery?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sax Rohmer
|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Petrie is surprised, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to England. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard man is on the trail of Fu Manchu, a Chinese doctor with ''the brains of any three men of genius''. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading the East to world domination!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>
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